Jesse Jackson Quotes About Children
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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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Most poor people are not on welfare. . . I know they work. I'm a witness. They catch the early bus. They work every day. They raise other people's children. They work every day. They clean the streets. They work every day. They drive vans with cabs. They work every day. They change beds you slept in these hotels last night and can't get a union contract. They work every day . . .
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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Black men of integrity cannot make a deal with a politician and leave out the poor of the nation, all God's children.
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I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am - Somebody! I may be uneducated, but I am - Somebody! I must be, I'm God's child. I must be respected and protected. I am black and I am beautiful! I am - Somebody! Soul Power!
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We have a moral concern to feed all of the hungry, wipe out malnutrition, so that every American be housed and every child have access to education.
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Those who have the most wealth and the most property, their children have the first, the best, and the most.
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Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.
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There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.
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[I]t's an honor to be a food stamp president. Food stamps feed the hungry. Food stamps save the children. Food stamps help the farmer. Food stamps help the truck driver. Food stamps help the warehouse. Food stamps help the store. Food stamps hire people and feed people. Food stamps save people from starvation and malnutrition. ... Give President Barack Obama a big hand. Show your love. Show your appreciation.
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Your children need your presence more than your presents.
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